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tv   Doc Film - Let It Snow - Winter on Three Continents  Deutsche Welle  December 29, 2018 6:15am-7:01am CET

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who won twenty one dies have come to the right place hands less than fifteen centimeters now this is just typical with your game here in montreal. in japan children learn how to fly big quizzes pool slaves. play. at minus sixteen heavy drop horses all the strongest. in russia that people keep fish and rooms that some in there with winter costs. are said but you don't drive the bloom. three culture history continents the same level. playing. cut. cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut.
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alyque of the yard at the new miscible services department six o'clock in the morning there's no time to lose the employees have to sort shovel and sweep before the city awakes last montreal's has a population of one point six million and sees more than two metres of snow for each winter it's not quite that much today. last. year yeah. maxine is dividing up his shift the city center needs to remain possible to vehicles half a million people and a hundred and sixty thousand cars travel downtown every day last
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time in the air or the back of the region we have to remove the bulk of it before russia starts to get shivers get it at its aureole the snow is pushed from the left side of the road to the right side curve where we pick it up later on a sheet a cold night what the thing in montreal they call this light snowfall. there's no snow at six in the morning and i'll be here oh. but it's definitely freezing cold on japan smaller than most island at minus sixteen degrees celsius. sixty. six. zero zero the one with the blaze is harnessed in front of the slave as an early morning exercise at gentle giant who weighs around a ton twice as much as a or. regular horse. all the way careful he'll come this way.
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this is a loaded with concrete also weighs half a ton this is a training session not on snow but on a rappel track feel. thanks thanks effie's thanks and thanks in a country that's hand to hefty sumo wrestlers these animals are here as felix to student do up something like oh the poor animals but you know what they like the hard work that's hard to understand for outsiders but we live with these horses twenty four hours
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a day to get all the local valuable if they weren't happy they wouldn't look so happy it was a day like today the last call i thought up the one that call you up course like the world was it's the largest shared talented people and horses in the world five hundred giants and two hundred handlers work at the racing stable then i'll be here they don't live side by side just a thin wall separates put geo from his coat in my and his family in my eyes wife and daughter have to help out who says they say are their lives colcord the kids all over the little one is due to take part in the upcoming race that got the better it was that if you look. it does. have it's one of the you know the. draft horses once what the fields and helped build up this settlement in the ruggedness after the arrival of heavy machinery the what course is state and
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was switched to racing. we're off to russia. when on a guy lake freezes over the only way to get to kishi island is off a craft. it takes messes new been said fund to alice to travel the sixty kilometers across the ice to reach their workplace. in hindsight it was impractical to build a world heritage site in such a remote location but well nobody could have now in three hundred years ago that this good chats would be so famous one day. weekend. hard luck
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the van is stuck in the frozen shoreline vegetation the man will have to complete that journey on foot. the cons of a tour and the carpenter have been working here for years. when we started the whole structure was leaning and the foundations were brittle we've been able to correct that we're constantly measuring it's special to work with this was having a lot of people so still checked is the litmus at least is that it's hard to imagine how the people cut it centuries ago it was a technology we don't understand anymore the first of us it's just a small. you know i'd like to. and more about that so those are some low shit almost all. wind weather and worms have all cause serious problems for this magnificent structure in carrot aliah the land of sixty six thousand lakes
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it's located far beyond st petersburg and home to bears wolves lynxes and foxes. it's half the size of germany that has a population of just six hundred fifty thousand. the. visitors are welcome. it's the perfect occasion to put the often on to bake. my biscuits with minute filling the tundras to pizza as it were. and tony. is eighty four and turning. has come for tea she's seventy five the two remember very different kinds of winters and it used to be
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much colder and there was a lot more snow we jump off the roofs into the snow don't look at the washed up which he got and the children had to fetch firewood we started collecting it in the spring it was in the us that made a lot of. believing we fetched it from the woods with the horses and then we chopped it up with an ax earlier that the really the critical that waited years until we had a chain saw those were good times. these two women have been friends for half their lives they still take two hour long walks together in the woods every day rain or shine because it's better to wear out than rust out. over in canada life in downtown montreal continues amid a heavy snow floury such conditions typically costs a good disruptions in countries like germany i kept saying get back to me this is
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nothing unusual for montreal we have conditions like this for months. the most important thing is to clear the main traffic arteries and i let me sort of take issue with it but that's our jobs but it's. just plain. two hundred kilometers of roads need to be cleared. as well as three hundred sixty kilometers of sidewalks. plus countless because. there's. plenty it's not tempting weather to venture out into and fortunately there's a way to avoid it then time city center is connected underground johnson suad knows his way around. the league here you're so welcome to my guided tour of
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hidden montreal yes we have a whole network of tunnels offices shops and restaurants can be accessed through them is that here in temperatures of minus thirty five under snow storm and no reason to stay home as it is it. the residents who live near a subway station can reach their office or go shopping even in the worst weather. that. the french people the thing that we go to school in the only white city that we live the whole life it's left school is a cliche thinking that we have a so bad. in church for a year so people are just living on the ground the will of winter we go winter outside but we have this if we don't want to go outside here. shopping and
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cinema or even ott all spread out across thirty six kilometers of tunnels forget. about although this is the map of the underground city there are two so boys and the little green one goes to the shopping district the orange one to the business and financial district the six three they all adding up all. the main station hotels and the food line ice rink are connected to the tunnel network says young punks walk through impressively manages to complete the majority of the route walking backwards or if you. look at legislate there's a downside to it i thought it was. like walking back word is a technique that we have and so i know what i'm supposed to know where i'm going if i'm a professional guide so walking backward i need to have trust of my people so they
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tell me if i'm going to hit the wall or something. but thankfully he manages to complete another tour without an accident in hand and surprisingly out then to nothing nothing we make a big leap to the other side of the globe seppo dough on how kind o. cool that. no other city has produced as many accomplished ski jumpers. their training using a human flight simulator. but you just throw it in that's how children learn the proper body posture and they lose their fear of jumping though you might think this skeet jumper wearing that
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number forty one has no fear. is believed to be invincible. but he tells us that his training is to participate in the world championships after he's won then he wants to go on to win an limpid gold good luck i hope this fighting spirit pleases the coaches and parents. at first i was worried about my boy but you get used to it and now i want him to win that he must. even a student competition starts with the japanese national anthem because they're not just here for fun. our you want to know they'd of us tell you great ski jumping legend nori arky kasai is over forty now is about time that the young generation put in some hard work and
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achieve something to. get here to pop some atmosphere this is a part o. noise team is equipped with a drum a megaphone and a whistle. and. although lots of girls now diski jumping the club still called ski jump boys. the most talented of them or here is eleven year old tyler he's won fourteen consecutive competitions can anyone be ten. there's a come. petition here too and if it's true that all girls love horses then fifteen year old chihiro lives in paradise. i have grown up
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with horses i want to be a jockey. but i have to lose a lot of weight for that unfortunately. she's preparing cio for his big race. the right accessories for his main are vital says her mother dorothy . morgan killian of it so he had that fight with the fleet and huge state with pink rosettes reminiscent of how little kitty and cherry blossoms. we women aren't usually involved directly with the horses or the training. we all eat together and we cook we help keep the stables clean. up above all that we try to support our men at work as best we can. or study. or stand us and act. in my the coach doesn't reveal whether he's
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happy with the grooming or not shortly before the race he has other concerns. and they're very good morning and welcome to our ice fishing competition full chains are taking part with two fisherman each about to start watching the sporting spirit is also strong on the icy expanses of lake on a guy in cafe area the local event agency is hosting a fishing competition there are prizes for catching the smallest the largest and the first fish. and today. is up for the challenge of which though the middle of winter is a tricky time for the highest. the water is extremely cold and the fish are very lethargic they're not in the mood to buy to a walk or clue of where the mom or that study are the best time is early in the
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morning and in the evening before for the hour change their year. but not before the experts have checked that the ice will hold lately. if you want to preserve the ice is fifty centimeters thick because nothing's going to happen it only gets dodgy when the ice is seven centimeters i mean that the ice rescue service we don't have much work in winter if you posted it will we get busy in spring march april may my mrs but because we've raised awareness there are now fewer accidents in the years to be with those who were with all of. the information flow warns readers don't jump or run no chance andrea is going to do any of that the any person in a hurry here is marianne from any event agency she's doing her rounds with the sniffer dog to ensure competitors don't smuggle in session and then pretend they
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cool down. the cut this isn't that what they have what they might. want to show you cut. out. i think and today is a rule abiding participant he'd never do anything like that before thought that it did maybe i do this for health reasons nothing is healthier than getting it to size out in the fresh air you use all your muscles when you're ice fishing shoulders your back and your legs this is much better than a treadmill or a stationary bike in a gym you know we've got to ask if you're so much. up also look a small perching it could be a winning fish good luck it's a show blue shade. smoke from the chimneys of the paper factory bellows into the sky calm sets in among the participants ice fishing is first and foremost disparage
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an exercise. not of the refurbishment of kerry as world heritage site the wooden transfiguration chat is way behind churchill. but the process is complicated well for. a frame of hundreds of steel structures and clamps secures the interior the old builders didn't even need nails. the feeling to move you. and hold your tongue for a wood construction this is really a huge complex we have to make sure we copy the old construction technique and recreate it like it was originally. and then we use the same materials that everything has to look the same. they've been dismantling its log walls
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piece by piece like a large scale version of pick up sticks to it it is due to lose your fish this year we had to divide the church into seven belts that we removed one after the other before reinstalling them once they had been restored. we're currently working on the fifth belt we've set it up here in the hall next door seems overly. rigid. me the carpenter and cons of a school would by the construction skills of the anonymous masters who left these talents to the world three hundred years ago the. fixed the winds getting rougher and. in montreal it's blown the clouds away.
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in the oven canyons of the city and on the sidewalks of the south that it's time for the big clear up this city has to move twelve million cubic meters of snow and sleet every season that's two hundred thousand truckloads. of. machines have come to swallow up the early shift piled up on the right side.
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here just because you know it's hard in downtown montreal because the people just walk everywhere nobody looks where they're going to be there are delivery trucks and buses all over the place because we have to maneuver between them with our equipment so yeah fine just name a possible job but someone's got to do it pick the yanks up in the mall yonder see . the snow is removed to special sites outside the city just get it out of the way. see t.v. news we've been silly talk a harsh or. good afternoon at montreal by lunchtime the morning snowstorm isn't making any headlines like ninety two years old it would have to be more severe for
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that says laurie graham. she's a t.v. weather presenter in a city that regularly drowns in snow. less than fifteen centimeters that that's just your typical winter day here in montreal it's once we get into twenty thirty centimeters of snow then it becomes interesting it becomes more of a news story than one tree on while forty centimeters have been dumped on the forecast for montreal is now freezing rain followed by plane right through the rest of the day today enough we saw this storm coming in about a week ago so already a week ago we were warning people that it looked like there would be some significant snow fall coming into montreal on tuesday it's not uncommon for much ryall to see snowstorms with fifteen centimeters it's not uncommon for us to see freezing rain we usually get about ten episodes of freezing rain jury in the winter season. and every time it covers the winter forests with crystal's an hour's drive from the city we find the canada we see in picture books.
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there in the square below the realm of the red maple leaf is also the home of maple syrup the province of quebec produces more of it than any other place and no one sells a greater variety of maple products then stiff fine food chain in his farm shops up to the. course we have maple syrup in the glass or plastic or metal bottles here we have maple butter we have maple chocolates gold nuggets sugared covered not people paramount over me told me to get here and maybe the only parts before scented soaps. here there are certainly
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different people. here's. the. unknown the maple syrup bottles and the maple syrup children's books the cookbooks and on the rules in the three hundred c. ten maple syrup speciality restaurant says the french bedded face of piaf o'shea the maple syrup king and stefan's father was the one who's done sing with the wolf light dog. i. heard a lot before i thought of south or north or time round. no i wouldn't i would like to voters to the south of the sun because because it's the real sees and hears wizards i recall the the fireplace. kev action that. pierre is seventy and already knew as
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a young man want was good to him he gave up his office job and travelled the world again he bought fifty hectares of maple forest and started farming. as a satellite he also worked in the traffic is a shitty day at the office to come back in the traffic to get. as they are they have no sense of accomplishment and then you're back in the traffic going to morning and the day of the office and the people talking about a week and how they retirements and you're always on like in a waiting state. they can't make do any time without office work even here because the maple sugar farm is a top tourist destination seventy thousand visitors heat the cool of the wild every year old what they believe the wild to be.
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playing to. the demands you know you begin to experience no new supplies are being delivered to the kitchen the business never sleeps food accommodation company treats seminars school classes and wedding parties and stephanie is busy with a new idea maple syrup popsicles all. game. playing and knowing militants planning. to bring. the world to us it is. now no. now still no. now. this up our road noise team is ready it's high time to.
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play. the youngsters the ones the japanese ski jumping a says the asian is pinning its hopes on flight distances measuring between three and twenty five meters that fills parents and coaches with pride over the participants get three jumps and it's an exciting day because taking the favorite by far is having a bad day it will get all those out that. played his last jump of a decisive after fourteen consecutive victories the eleven year old can't even imagine anymore what it's like not to win the little. bit of it. was.
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odette is messed up some way his rival is cheering for. the endeavor of. life that he's not on the podium this time. his father used to be a ski jump him self he knows what the problem was his landing technique hasn't been perfected it was the one celebrity buckets of you have to concentrate better on landing you have to practice your technique constantly articles and it doesn't matter how badly you jump you have to finish it cleanly actually. did the but you know you have to work even harder not to get in a. tight he's not in the mood to listen any more he wants to be alone leaning seems so easy losing however takes practice.
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no than japan is another region that seen a lot less snow than usual. climate change or just coincidence it's enough a pretty picture is but not for records and it's enough for the children winter fun outside the racetrack in the o.b. here though the kids are entertained so that the adults can gamble in peace and quiet. the locals love gambling casinos are banned here but sports betting is allowed.
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with the white markings on his face and the pink wears that's in his name is in good shape says dino his jockey you know you're. going out on well with him and we never argue. but you can't just win a race with pleasantries sometimes you have to give clear orders. to. the live broadcast on the internet starts with a fanfare. is in the forecast track is all the money to fooling about it but then when a human who really gets going. up a stop fighting much though. he even takes the lead until such cano can know and arrives. i said conall kononenko is on track seven and he takes the lead it looks
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like the teal has lost steam but he gives it his own lead come the second spell but it's just a big success the gentle giant i think of he doesn't have the perfect nature of a race horse horses ago when i guess he's much too friendly what they called him was what other horses get angry that go up but he's placid and if he puts up with anything will. knowledge there was then that. this town wouldn't win a beauty competition with its hotel blocks. nobody dead still is not far from support of nevertheless it's a popular resort for the japanese it has hot springs a large number of chinese tourists have started coming in recent years too they enjoy the two now and want to see snow.
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very young men assembling basins down at the sulphur well red and white a festive color combination. of all the marketing of the west setting up the us to fill up without you know to splash around into much. like. the spring water still has a temperature of sixty two degrees but it'll cool to a pleasant thirty in time for the water fight. consume the hamada dongs a traditional outfit he's a roofer but tonight dealing with evil spirits. you all know since it will tell you it's a custom in japan to chase away evil was
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a big celebration in the middle of winter. we throw beans at leavell spirits which drives them away. after that we'll be safe from bad surprises all year long you know what city. that's how it comes to pass that a horde of hairy demons mr ahmed are is here playing the flute surprises the chinese guests enjoying the book fake. it would have been inconceivable in the past for the proud japanese demons to perform wild folk dances for vacationers from china but it would appear that nothing is as it was. but. nowadays they
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turn peanuts instead of beings even though their effect on evil spirits hasn't been properly researched. and things are getting serious in the shadow of the paper mill on lake on a gun. there's a i don't want to use our songs are. saburo contest inspection of the shoulder of the fans to. the competition is over they've got to stop fishing larry around stop non-complying contestants. would last a minute i've only caught one proper fish there weren't many about there there was a lot more action up here. the touch and today doesn't feel hopeful that he's won anything but his
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tiny patch turns out to be an excellent catch if he wins the singles category and with his friend fallon added he also wins the team category the touch doesn't really think much of such mass events. but he is nevertheless a little bit proud it's a challenge he denied his winning fish to a good cool as much as it appears now to. the for he was. elsewhere in canada a school classes visiting the maple sugar farm to taste the winter many in an atmosphere of gannett coziness the whole thing is a camera hit the teacher was an entertainment and on beyond everything supposed to be like it was in the good old
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days was the issue but the shots came and for canada that means the days of trappers and bloggers who will who were invited to imagine looked like and i piaffe is making a fire again this time he's lighting the old stove although all the cooking now takes place in the big kitchen next door where everything it tastes of sweet illusion including the piece and it's a yellow piece. thanks to her he put a bit of a full circle on the. under the thumb of the flipper the way you found females whole made me huge embryos are my lashes and the beans. here is a meatball feels good because everybody reminds them of their home so people arrive here and. this is
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a this is really great now this is something that we forgot about and are also this is a something that they can identify to because tradition as i say is a caste a pair of jeans it's very cerebral you're welcome to. speak stefan whereas a colorful woollen cape a quad belt and the his jeans while he skillfully makes music with odd looking spins both are available in the sea the nash up off a custom is to order online from the comfort of home. to musicians in hawkeye don't own quite as comfortable the spectacle starts in the utmost of wintry conditions. what looks like christmas trees are devils clubs and there's
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a whole lot of clubbing going on here it is the madness dumping rice into mash mooching a traditional new year's day. but then finally the time arrives for the wild men and this outfits. it's not really clear what exactly is happening. just this much but one group was red head band the other white and headband of the leader has to be captured until it all night gives the winners luck in business in the new year. that's just all that's all the others will say healthy that way everyone wins one. over the hardest of all i'm. somewhere out there i'm not out the roof is grappling
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and splashing but not even his wife knows where exactly the nooses to prove that good health carry off a sizable wooden phallus i was styria ask us to means that the tourists love at. home. mr howe modest says he doesn't get cold at least not while the water that's running around this room after that it can get quite unpleasant best to run for it i am one of the it was i the. i am the i. on the way home of the two antonio as i want to quickly pick up some milk from mad dash to half but quickly isn't part of the neighbor's vocabulary.
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i was let you take the folk dance group is rehearsing today still listen for a while after that there be cake for everybody gone go upstairs. was i as long as the cultural center is being restored they dance here in the children's bedroom they mustn't get out of practice after. the end. i did too until nina's join in too after all it's better to wear out than must out. i staying active and having fun that helps against the cold too because winter. inspired from a. plane
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